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Eric A. Meyer

@brentsimmons *(narrator)* They did not, in fact, stop being surprised in 2027.

Pink! Polonium!

@brentsimmons In retrospect, I wonder if all the chatter way back when about the death of Google Reader served to convince people that RSS was dead (and therefore everybody should sign up for Facebook).

Nfoonf

@brentsimmons @Cheatha Kids! netnewswire is the best thing I started to use last year

Brent Simmons

@pinkpolonium It seemed true then and still seems true.

michael

@brentsimmons RSS is great. The internet coming to me rather than the opposite.

Steve Barnes

@brentsimmons –

(The criterion for "people" is that any two or more people during a given year say something like this at least once, or…?)

Brent Simmons

@Starfia It’s a thing I happen to notice all the time. (If anyone would notice, it would be people who write RSS readers.)

Tim Stringer

@brentsimmons Maybe it's time to rename it to "Really Sustainable Syndication"

Irene (she/they, Sir/Mr.)

@brentsimmons as a fully grown adult who still actively struggles with object permanence, i fear that "number of solar orbits" is not the limiting factor

Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻

@brentsimmons PHP vibes

Greg Reinacker

@brentsimmons wait ’til they hear about SMTP!

Carlos Solís

As a #Friendica user (one of the few services that supports RSS feeds and AP in the same app), I'm sure glad that RSS is still around! Except for all the services that are in the Extinguish phase of the Extend-Embrace-Extinguish strategy, like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Reddit - all of them conveniently dropped support for RSS around the time they shut down most external APIs, and now the only way to retrieve data from them is using scrapers like fetchrss.com/

MegatronicThronBanks

@brentsimmons ATOMMMMMMMMM

Jonathan Clede

@brentsimmons Didn't Google shut down RSS in 2013?

Paul_IPv6

@brentsimmons

2025: OMG RSS is still around!
2026: RSS is still around. Thank heavens!

Lesley Lai

@brentsimmons It's surprising how many people are using RSS. I something bumps into people in real life who use it.

I feel that people say "RSS is dead" because RSS users don't talk back (unlike, say, on social media) and it's hard to know they exist, but there is a reason it's still widely supported across so many blogs and sites.

william.maggos

@brentsimmons

ActivityPub is next gen RSS, adding boosts and replies. I don't want to subscribe to a million feeds or podcasts, but I would like to follow a lot of people and see what articles, videos and podcast episodes are most popular with them.

Dr. Dirtbag

@brentsimmons Praise be to those who baked it into various CMSs back in the day, where it silently continues to do its job, beneath the notice of web devs and Chief Growth Officers. (And thanks for NNW.)

C.Salem

@brentsimmons We Salute you Aaron Swartz.

░ON░THE█AIR░

@brentsimmons RSS might be the best protocol ever invented. It's the backbone of modern podcasting and nobody even knows it. The fact that nobody knows about it shows how great it is. It never breaks, it hasn't been enshittified... It just silently works in the background without bothering anybody. That's how tech should work. The more you hear about something, the more it sucks... Take Meta for example. It's dystopian level bad at every level of their stack... Can't stay out of the news because it is always fucking something up. RSS would never do that to us.

Wandering Adventure Party

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